New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
TIE AUSTRIAN MISSION.
GENERAL LAYTON SECURES THE PRIZE.
last CHAPTER OF A DIPLOMATIC yARcE-THk NE"
MINISTER.
mY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuSE.]


v.su,yGroN, April 16.--The President 'o-osy
.,nointed General Alexander r. Lawton OF oeore,",
20 be Minitser to Austria. This is the last a's =,
diplouotic farce, the first lines OF wn'c" WIZ
by Secretary Bayard when he recommeno.u VA
po;ntment OF Kelley, whom itaiy hau fo( 49, GO
ill not nav.v vas the petuiant declaration Of inc
decentralization in more diplomatic terms ana 80 ,or
tuo Years the courtesies Of diplomatic intercourse
tween the United States and Austria ceased 10 exist
Kelley has become hateful remnmcehce " .no ~
min stra,on. Austra's di pomatc Representative a
been received with elusive welcome and now the Ao-
u,nistratou offers General LAYTON This Is not Tue
first effort to reward him. More than two years "so
he was named for the Russian MISSION. IL cano ~
,be knowledge of the Senate that General Lawtoh was
sunder political disabilities. As a youth he was eau'
Gated at the expense OF the Government at est roh''
AID for time served officer OF the ISL hr"os,
Afterw ard he was Bigadier-Genersi IN 'ne nooe'
Army. On February q, 1867, he received p"ison
from p,es;dent johnson. The Judiciary Committee
a. tho Senate held that the pardon did not remove ne
noit;cal disabilities imposed by Amendment TO me
Constitution and the representations made Wy
Chairman Edmunds and otaer members OF inc Gum
mittes the nomin alton withdrawn. The PRESIDENT
d;saoreed with the Senate, AMI as he still desired 10
send General Lawton abroad, he referred the matter
TO attorney General Garland VINO, as mat'ef "
course agreed with the President But 0enerai
Iawton was not satisfied with Mr. Gafiaha'' opih'on
az WAS understood at the time and decided not 10
accent an aupontn ent Probably the PresideR was
NOT sorry Senator "JOe Brown was man VI
greater influence at the White House at tna1 'nne
thar he now is. Lawton had been candidate ior
the Senate against Brown five years before, anu lne
latter had not forgotten it, Moreover General Law
ton and General Henry II. Jackson, late minister "
Mexico wno had been partners In business VIZ v
uufr,eudly terms and the latter was the h'ina'0
friend Ut Senator Brown. 49,
Senator Brown and General jackson are still the
warmest of friends and the relations between
Brown and Lewton have not improved put tne ne0rgi
senator ia no longer d power at the White mouse ano
Az for Jackson he is in disgrace at the state Depart
ment Obscure intimatiOns 1t Is asserted Irequen.y
emanate from the inner OF that Department
to the effect that Mr.. Bayards refusal to communi,
cafe to the Senate the correspondence between
and tho late Minister to Mexico was only anVtner
proof of the Secretary's generous ana cnlealrous
nature and that the publication OF that c0rrespon
dcnce while it would have shed additional ustre On
the and tame OF the modern oneVan I;sh 1T
course ali such ntnations are resented ny ,ne I;
of the ex- Minister who regret that he NH nvt 81 us
own notion place the correspondence before tne pun
lie in his own yindicaton These statements indlcate
that the Administration is strong enough ~ 0eoi
10 brave the opposition OF Senator BLOWN IN and
sbal choose to exert his influence against the send
of Cleveland delegates from Georgia TO the Na''oha'
Convention. ,,s,s rndar
polit cal disabilities. The fret time that Grove.
Cleveland ever affixed his signature TO law passeo
by Congress, was when be approved an de'
cjsorra. ON December &c, 1855. That was the first
act passed by the XLiXth Congress- .-.,,,o ,n
General Iawton born in South Caroiina ~. III
1915 He was graduated at West Point ABOUT iSov'
and served for Eighteen months in the LIST Artlieiy
He then resigned and studied law. Ever since ne ne
was admitted to the bar he has pIacused law III ha
Eavannah In 1850 he became president OF lne
Augusta and Savannah Railroad He " as elcesed d 70
the STATE senate in I5b0. As Colonel OF the list
Regiment Of Georgia Volunteers no took ION
thority In April, 1861, he was made Brlgadier-
General in the Confederate Array, and throughout the
reeneased in the practice Of law. He was elected to
the State House Of Representative in 1879 ana In
IaS7 he was Of the State Constitutional
Convention He Is trustee Of the University Of
Georgia and attorney for the Central Railroad OF
Georgia.
The President this afternoon also made the following
appointments:
Newman Mcconnell OF Tennessee to be CHIEF Justice or
the supreme Montana Territory.
Gooree Peters OF Ohio attorney Of the United
States Territory OF Utah.
Of Oregon TO be agent OF ne HUMANS oi inc
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